Mihal Grameno (13 January 1871 – 5 February 1931) was an Albanian nationalist, politician, writer, freedom fighter, and journalist. He was one of the four initial appointed delegates from Korçë to the Albanian National Congress that proclaimed the Independence of Albania on 28 November 1912. Biography Mihal Grameno was born in Korçë to an Orthodox merchant family. He studied at the local secondary school before emigrating to Romania in 1885. It was in Bucharest where he got involved in the Albanian National Awakening where the movement soon collapsed due to financial reasons in the extended family who were dependent on money. In 1907, he joined the newly formed Çerçiz Topulli's kachak band, an early guerrilla unit fighting against Ottoman troops ( mostly Albanian) and policies of Sultan Abdul Hamid II in Albania. They were considered the Apostles of Albanianism and would go from village to village to discuss the Albanian predicament. Ottoman officials sent out military patrols to capture the bandits. The activity of the band consisted of only one battle in two years, when the 5 people band was surrounded by 150 Ottoman units in Mashkullore. Four out of five escaped the encirclement by defeating Ottoman troops. Other bands of this nature, not having a journalist in their company, such as Grameno have remained unsung heroes. During the Young Turk Revolution (1908), the Albanian Adjuntant Major Ahmed Niyazi Bey met with guerilla leaders Topulli and Grameno on 23 July in Resne (modern Resen) where he expressed his gratitude and viewed the declaration of the CUP constitution as advantageous for the Albanian nation. Grameno alongside Topulli and Niyazi appeared in photographs taken by the Manakis brothers during the revolution. In 1909 Grameno founded in Korçë the Orthodox League (or Alliance) () and served as editor of its periodical with the same name during 1909–1910. In 1910 the organization proclaimed the establishment of an independent Albanian church, and was unrecognized by the Ottoman Empire and Patriarchate of Constantinople. Grameno was arrested in 1910 by Ottoman authorities for his work with the newspaper Bashkimi i Kombit. During the upheavals of 1911, Grameno traveled as a go between for Albanian revolutionaries in Albanian inhabited lands and leaders of the Albanian national movement in Istanbul to coordinate armed activities against the Ottoman Empire and secure a separation of Albanian lands from the Ottoman state. Mihal Grameno was one of the four initial appointed delegates